Ida (2013) |
Drama |
Poland, 1962. Anna, an orphan brought up by nuns in the convent, is a novice. She has to see Wanda, the only living relative, before she takes her vows. Wanda tells Anna about her Jewish roots. Both women start a journey not only to find their family's tragic story, but to see who they really are and where they belong. They question what they used to believe in. |
Director: Pawel Pawlikowski |
Stars: Agata Kulesza, Agata Trzebuchowska, Dawid Ogrodnik, Jerzy Trela, ... |
Cold in July (2014) |
Crime, Thriller |
When a protective father meets a murderous ex-con, both need to deviate from the path they are on as they soon find themselves entangled in a downwards spiral of lies and violence while having to confront their own inner psyche. |
Director: Jim Mickle |
Stars: Michael C. Hall, Don Johnson, Sam Shepard, Vinessa Shaw, ... |
The Expendables 3 (2014) |
Action, Adventure, Thriller |
Barney augments his team with new blood for a personal battle: to take down Conrad Stonebanks, the Expendables co-founder and notorious arms trader who is hell bent on wiping out Barney and every single one of his associates. |
Director: Patrick Hughes |
Stars: Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Antonio Banderas, ... |
Nymphomaniac: Vol. II (2013) |
Drama |
Joe continues to tell to Seligman the story of her life. Joe lives with Jerôme and their son Marcel and out of the blue, she loses sexual sensation in intercourse. Joe seeks kinky sex, perversions and sadomasochism expecting to retrieve her sex drive. Jerôme leaves home with Marcel and gives his son to a foster house for adoption. Then Joe is sent to therapy by her gynecologist but she does not admit that she is addicted to sex. Meanwhile Seligman tells Joe that he is virgin and helps her to understand her actions. Joe believes that Seligman is her friend, but is he? |
Director: Lars von Trier |
Stars: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Stellan Skarsgård, Stacy Martin, Shia LaBeouf, ... |
Alan Partridge (2013) |
Comedy, Crime |
Radio DJ Alan Partridge is facing uncertain times with his radio station being taken over by a corporate conglomerate. He makes things worse when he talks down a colleague after a promise to talk him up. The colleague handles things badly and takes the radio station into his own hands, literally, by taking them all hostage. Envisioning all his action heroes in his head, Alan is going to save the day by becoming a go-between for the Scotland Yard. His method though will put himself and others in harm's way because Alan Partridge just can't keep his mouth shut. |
Director: Declan Lowney |
Stars: Colm Meaney, Steve Coogan, Tim Key, Karl Theobald, ... |
Only Lovers Left Alive (2013) |
Drama, Horror, Romance |
Adam (Tom Hiddleston), an underground musician, reunites with his lover for centuries (Tilda Swinton) after he becomes depressed and tired with the direction human society has taken. Their love is interrupted and tested by her wild and uncontrollable little sister (Mia Wasikowska). |
Director: Jim Jarmusch |
Stars: Tilda Swinton, Tom Hiddleston, Anton Yelchin, Mia Wasikowska, ... |
Brick Mansions (2014) |
Action, Crime, Drama |
An undercover Detroit cop navigates a dangerous neighborhood that's surrounded by a containment wall with the help of an ex-con in order to bring down a crime lord and his plot to devastate the entire city. |
Director: Camille Delamarre |
Stars: Paul Walker, David Belle, RZA, Gouchy Boy, ... |
Blue Ruin (2013) |
Crime, Drama, Thriller |
A mysterious outsider's quiet life is turned upside down when he returns to his childhood home to carry out an act of vengeance. Proving himself an amateur assassin, he winds up in a brutal fight to protect his estranged family. |
Director: Jeremy Saulnier |
Stars: Macon Blair, Devin Ratray, Amy Hargreaves, Kevin Kolack, ... |
The German Doctor (2013) |
Drama, History, Thriller |
Patagonia, 1960. A German doctor (Alex Brendemühl) meets an Argentinean family and follows them on a long desert road to a small town where the family will be starting a new life. Eva (Natalia Oreiro), Enzo (Diego Peretti) and their three children welcome the doctor into their home and entrust their young daughter, Lilith (Florencia Bado), to his care, not knowing that they are harboring one of the most dangerous criminals in the world. At the same time, Israeli agents are desperately looking to bring THE GERMAN DOCTOR to justice. Based on filmmaker Lucía Puenzo's (XXY) fifth novel, the story follows Josef Mengele, the "Angel of Death," a German SS officer and a physician at the Auschwitz concentration camp, in the years he spent "hiding", along with many other Nazi's, in South America following his escape from Germany. Mengele was considered to be one of WWII's most heinous Nazi war criminals. |
Director: Lucía Puenzo |
Stars: Àlex Brendemühl, Natalia Oreiro, Diego Peretti, Elena Roger, ... |
Need for Speed (2014) |
Action, Crime, Drama |
Fresh from prison, a street racer who was framed by a wealthy business associate joins a cross country race with revenge in mind. His ex-partner, learning of the plan, places a massive bounty on his head as the race begins. |
Director: Scott Waugh |
Stars: Aaron Paul, Dominic Cooper, Imogen Poots, Scott Mescudi, ... |
Enemy (2013) |
Horror, Mystery, Thriller |
Adam Bell is a Toronto area History college professor. He is a rather somber man, largely because he is stuck in a routine, which includes a relationship with his live-in girlfriend, Mary. While watching a rental movie, he spots an actor in a bit part that looks like him. He becomes obsessed with finding out about this double of his. He learns that the actor's stage name is Daniel Saint Claire, whose legal name is Anthony Claire. Claire is a Toronto based actor with only a few on-screen credits, and is married to a woman named Helen who is currently several months pregnant. Adam then becomes obsessed with meeting Claire, who he learns upon first sighting that they look exactly the same, from the facial hair to a scar each has, but Claire who outwardly is more "put together" than Adam. Their lives become intertwined as Claire himself ends up becoming obsessed with Adam, but in a slightly different way. |
Director: Denis Villeneuve |
Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Mélanie Laurent, Sarah Gadon, Isabella Rossellini, ... |
Le Week-End (2013) |
Comedy, Drama, Romance |
A British couple return to Paris many years after their honeymoon there in an attempt to rejuvenate their marriage. |
Director: Roger Michell |
Stars: Lindsay Duncan, Jim Broadbent, Igor Gotesman, Olivier Audibert, ... |
Nymphomaniac: Vol. I (2013) |
Drama |
A man named Seligman finds a fainted wounded woman in an alley and he brings her home. She tells him that her name is Joe and that she is nymphomaniac. Joe tells her life and sexual experiences with hundreds of men since she was a young teenager while Seligman tells about his hobbies, such as fly fishing, reading about Fibonacci numbers or listening to organ music. |
Director: Lars von Trier |
Stars: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Stellan Skarsgård, Stacy Martin, Shia LaBeouf, ... |
Blood Ties (2013) |
Crime, Drama, Thriller |
New York, 1974. Fifty-year-old Chris (Clive Owen) has just been released on good behavior after several years in prison following a gangland murder. Reluctantly waiting for him outside the gates is his younger brother, Frank (Billy Crudup), a cop with a bright future. Chris and Frank have always been different, and their father, Leon (James Caan), who raised them alone, seems to favor Chris despite all his troubles. Yet blood ties are the ones that bind, and Frank, hoping that his brother has changed, is willing to give him a chance - he shares his home, finds him a job, and helps him reconnect with his children and his ex-wife, Monica (Marion Cotillard). But Chris' inevitable descent back into a life of crime proves to be the last in a long line of betrayals, and after his brother's latest transgressions, Frank banishes him from his life. But it's already too late, as the brothers' destiny is bound together, forever. |
Director: Guillaume Canet |
Stars: Clive Owen, Billy Crudup, Marion Cotillard, Mila Kunis, ... |
Jimmy P. (2013) |
Drama |
A troubled Native American veteran forms an extraordinary friendship with his maverick French psychoanalyst as they try to find a cure to his suffering. |
Director: Arnaud Desplechin |
Stars: Benicio Del Toro, Mathieu Amalric, Gina McKee, Larry Pine, ... |
3 Days to Kill (2014) |
Action, Drama, Thriller |
A dying CIA agent trying to reconnect with his estranged daughter is offered an experimental drug that could save his life in exchange for one last assignment. |
Director: McG |
Stars: Kevin Costner, Amber Heard, Hailee Steinfeld, Connie Nielsen, ... |
Non-Stop (2014) |
Action, Mystery, Thriller |
An air marshal springs into action during a transatlantic flight after receiving a series of text messages that put his fellow passengers at risk unless the airline transfers $150 million into an off-shore account. |
Director: Jaume Collet-Serra |
Stars: Liam Neeson, Julianne Moore, Scoot McNairy, Michelle Dockery, ... |
The Lunchbox (2013) |
Drama, Romance |
The film, set in Mumbai, revolves around a mistaken delivery by the Dabbawalas (lunchbox service) of Mumbai, which leads to a relationship between Saajan, a lonely widower close to retirement, and Ila, an unhappy housewife, as they start exchanging notes through the daily lunchbox. |
Director: Ritesh Batra |
Stars: Irrfan Khan, Nimrat Kaur, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Lillete Dubey, ... |
Stranger by the Lake (2013) |
Drama, Thriller |
Franck, a fit gay man, seeks love at a lakeside gay cruising beach. Among the mostly pudgy nude sunbathers, he befriends Henri, a depressed middle-aged bi-sexual who enjoys the quiet but accepts Franck's company. When Michel appears, Franck finally spots a man he'd like to know sexually. Unfortunately, he also spots him drowning his gay lover but opts not to tell anyone in order to consider having a relationship with this handsome yet remorseless killer. |
Director: Alain Guiraudie |
Stars: Pierre Deladonchamps, Christophe Paou, Patrick d'Assumçao, Jérôme Chappatte, ... |
Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) |
Drama, Music |
Follow a week in the life of a young folk singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961. Guitar in tow, huddled against the unforgiving New York winter, he is struggling to make it as a musician against seemingly insurmountable obstacles -- some of them of his own making. |
Director: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen |
Stars: Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, Justin Timberlake, Ethan Phillips, ... |